Comments on Ralph Kiner

You’re absolutely right! Why is it not PC to say someone is too old to do their job effectively? It will one day happen to all of us, but people get offended by all sorts of bs so I understand the disclaimer.

I loved Kiner’s corner as a kid. I watched a lot of Mets games, Yankee games, and even Braves games when I was a kid, and it is sad that SNY still runs Kiner out there. I don’t know why I had a weird fascination with Dale Murphy’s swing.

Back to Kiner, I no longer think of him as the guy with McCarver in the booth and Kiner’s corner coming on afterward. So SNY is assisting in sullying the good memories people have of Ralph Kiner.

So SNY is assisting in sullying the good memories people have of Ralph Kiner.

SNY is assisting in sullying the good memories of Ralph Kiner by giving Ralph Kiner a job? I don’t think they look at it that way, and his quality of life/sense of purpose at this stage of his life is more important than any fan’s memories of him.

He was never a great announcer to begin with, at least not when I watched him in his 50-60s. As long as people in the audience/Mets fans like having him around, good for SNY. When SNY no longer wants him, I wouldn’t mind having him as GM of the Yankees.

Steve it needed to be said. Having Ralph on is nothing short of an absurdity at this point. He can’t communicate clearly enough on mic to be understood. The last time I heard him he was going on about Hank Greenberg, most of what he was saying was unintelligible. Imagine this, he’s talking about a player 75% of the audience never saw play, you can’t understand half of what he is saying and there is a ball game going on that needs to covered. It makes no sense. Can you imagine being a young Met fan trying to listen to this.

To me the best play by play team I have heard in my lifetime is the team of Nelson, Kiner and Murphy. It gives me no pleasure advocate for an end to Ralph’s mic time, but it is over.

@ Joseph Maloney:
I haven’t heard him, but if most of what he’s saying is unintelligible, he shouldn’t be on. If he could speak more clearly and as long as his mind’s still there, I wouldn’t have a problem with him talking about the Greenbergs of the past or the coverage suffering a bit for the sake of keeping him going.

He can’t communicate clearly enough on mic to be understood. The last time I heard him he was going on about Hank Greenberg, most of what he was saying was unintelligible. Imagine this, he’s talking about a player 75% of the audience never saw play, you can’t understand half of what he is saying and there is a ball game going on that needs to covered. It makes no sense. Can you imagine being a young Met fan trying to listen to this.

Joseph Maloney wrote:
He can’t communicate clearly enough on mic to be understood. The last time I heard him he was going on about Hank Greenberg, most of what he was saying was unintelligible. Imagine this, he’s talking about a player 75% of the audience never saw play, you can’t understand half of what he is saying and there is a ball game going on that needs to covered. It makes no sense. Can you imagine being a young Met fan trying to listen to this.
I’d imagine it’s a lot like listening to Sterling & Waldman

SNY is assisting in sullying the good memories of Ralph Kiner by giving Ralph Kiner a job? I don’t think they look at it that way, and his quality of life/sense of purpose at this stage of his life is more important than any fan’s memories of him.

Agreed. There aren’t going to be many more opportunities to do this, given Kiner’s advanced age. For all that Kiner has done, it’s the least the Mets organization could do, bringing him on as a guest analyst every so often.